Tiktukno: summary of the day's events in sports, 1.12 (Sport1)
For a mere three minutes, the Spanish national team was out of the World Cup.
The most impressive team of the opening round, the one that crushed Costa Rica 0:7 and looked like the most exciting thing in Qatar, succumbed to Japan's upheaval and advanced to the round of 16 despite losing 2:1, but you won't forget so quickly the few minutes in which Costa Rica led Germany Then left her outside.
In "Marca" they turned to thank the Germans, who made a turnaround in the final minutes and beat Costa Rica 2:4.
"Gracias Germany! Danka Habertz!" read the headline on the website.
Even in "AS" they followed the same line: "Thank you, Senor Habertz!".
Spain will meet Morocco in the round of 16 and may have reached a more comfortable side for them, as they will avoid further encounters with Brazil and Argentina.
Theories have already surfaced online according to which the Spaniards preferred to lose because the gain is twofold: a meeting with Morocco and, as mentioned, moving to a less scary side.
On the other hand, they too were already on the verge of impeachment.
Recap of Japan's 1:2 win over Spain courtesy of Kaan 11 - the official broadcaster of the 2022 World Cup. Live broadcasts, recaps, statistics and more await you on Kaan's World Cup page
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They did not expect such an evening.
Federico and Alvaro Morata (Photo: Reuters)
The responses
Luis Enrique
concluded: "There were five minutes of loss of control, panic even. In those moments, if they had to score two more times then they would have succeeded. This is the World Cup and a team like Japan has nothing to lose. They flew past us like airplanes."
The coach continued: "After the turnover, they controlled the situation. They closed the box and everything we tried was not enough. They surpassed us in five minutes of madness. The rest of the time we were quite good. We wanted to equalize or win, but it didn't happen. It annoys me because I wanted To finish first at home. Self-criticism? We should have been more forceful. Today I don't have too much to celebrate, to be honest."
At the press conference, when Luis Enrique was told that there were minutes in which Spain were out, he reacted with surprise: "We would have been eliminated for three minutes? If I had known, I would have had a heart attack."
Captain
Sergio Busquets
: "We had difficulty passing between the lines and creating danger on their goal. We knew this would be the case, but the two quick goals gave them confidence. We wanted to move up from first place, we didn't choose an opponent. It doesn't matter to us. Now we go to another meeting from second place, but it's not It will be easier, I promise you."
Pedri
admitted: "Japan was much more intense. We didn't control the pace and we saw what happened. I looked at the result and thought we were relegated, that we had to score. We didn't succeed. There were difficulties throughout the game, also against Germany. I'm not tired, we didn't lack freshness. They just put a lot of players on the field and played with tremendous intensity."
Goal scorer Albero Morata
:
"We've passed a stage, that's the most important thing. One more slight stumble and we'd go home. Ask teams that were eliminated if it's important to them what impression they left. I'm sure they'd prefer to be in our situation. We'll have to prepare for the round of 16, it won't be easy."
"They passed us like planes."
Luis Enrique (Photo: Reuters)
the numbers
* Japan advanced to the round of 16 of the World Cup for the fourth time in its history, and for the first time this happens in two consecutive tournaments.
She never got past that stage.
* Japan beat Spain with 17.7 percent possession of the ball!
This is the lowest percentage for a winning team in the history of the World Cup.
* Since data collection began in the 1966 World Cup, only two teams have lost a game in which they attempted more than 700 passes: Germany last week and Spain this week - both against Japan.
* This is the first time that Spain has lost in 90 minutes to a team from Asia.
To date, it has had 13 wins and two draws (against South Korea in 1994 and 2002, when it was eliminated on penalties).
* Pau Torres (121) and Rodry (119) delivered in the first half more than all Japanese players together (116).
* Albero Morata became the second player in the history of Spain to score in the first three games in the World Cup.
The previous one was Telmo Sara in 1950.
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